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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Joe Haldeman - All My Sins Remembered

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***Spoilers*** Joe Haldeman served two tours in Vietnam as a US combat engineer, where he was severely injured. It is probably fair to s...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Peter Binns, Tony Cliff & Chris Harman - Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

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Having spent some of the Russian Revolution's centenary year reading books about 1917, the years 2018 onward bring a whole host of opp...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Matthew T. Huber - Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom & the Force of Capital

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For those of us battling for radical action on climate change the role of the fossil fuel corporations within capitalism is a key issue. H...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Mike Wendling - Alt Right: From 4chan to the White House

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The election of Donald Trump as US President allowed a tidal wave of far-right politics to enter mainstream political discussion. Suddenly...

Brian Aldiss - Non-Stop

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*Warning Spoilers* Brian Aldiss' Non-Stop is a extraordinarily fine science fiction novel that has barely dated since its initial pub...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Charlie Clutterbuck - Bittersweet Brexit: The Future of Food, Farming, Land and Labour

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Charlie Clutterbuck's new book is an important intervention into discussions about the future of the British food system. I urge every...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

Perez Zagorin - Rebels & Rulers 1500-1660: Volume 1: Society, States & Early Modern Revolution - Agrarian & Urban Rebellions

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Perez Zagorin's book was an enormous challenge for me to finish. This was not because it was boring or inaccessible, but because I fou...

Sally Magnusson - The Sealwoman’s Gift

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*** Spoilers *** Sally Magnusson's novel The Sealwoman's Gift is one of those stories which seems so unbelievable, it cannot poss...
Sunday, August 05, 2018

Karl Marx - Capital Volume I

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How can you write a review of Karl Marx 's Capital ? It is, after all, one of the most discussed books in the world, though I suspect ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Fred Pearce - The New Wild: Why Invasive Species will be Nature's Salvation

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Fred Pearce has been a longstanding writer and science journalist on ecological questions, and any book by him deserves a serious consider...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Shaun Jeffery - The Village in Revolt: The Story of the Longest Strike in History

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The story of the Burston School Strike, the "longest in history", is a seminal one for the British trade union movement. The sto...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

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Beginning with an intriguing idea, this is a complex novel that will repay reading for a second time I suspect. It is set in the future, p...
Thursday, July 26, 2018

Julia Boyd - Travellers in the Third Reich

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It is a cliche to say it but "hindsight is a wonderful thing". It's a phrase that repeatedly came to mind as I read Julia Bo...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

James Hobson - Dark Days of Georgian Britain

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History bookshelves groan under the weight of books devoted to kings and queens, famous generals and well known figures. Rarely do ordinar...
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